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Racism is defined as the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races. Prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior, is racist. In the book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn the theme of racism is shown. At the time when this story occurred, people looked at blacks as slaves, and not humans. Because of this, they abused and neglected black slaves. Huck thought no differently of Jim; he only copied what he had thought was expected. No one cared to consider that perhaps blacks are people, and perhaps they have feelings, too. This mindset of superiority of the whites influenced many events. Slaves tried running away to freedom; if a slave was caught escaping they would be killed and/or tortured. Throughout all of history we are able to see the way racist attitudes impact events and influence the behaviors of people. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Jim is a runaway slave and Huck is assisting Jim. Society at that time looked down at Blacks and mistreated them. “Pap always said it warn’t no harm to borrow things if you was meaning to pay them back some time,… then he reckoned it wouldn’t be no harm to borrow the others.” Pap was influenced and brought up by the ways of society. He couldn’t see what was wrong with borrowing a person. This way of thinking spread to children and young adults like Huck. “Well, I RECKON! There’s two hunderd dollars reward on him. It’s like picking up money out’n the road.” The boy Huck meets on the road doesn’t see Jim as a person; he sees him as a big pile of money. From this we can see how their racist mentalities influenced their actions. The USA TODAY published an article relating to the trial in Ferguson, Missouri. The trial consisted of a white police officer who shot an unarmed 18 year-old black man. The police officer claimed it was self-defense; the black community, however, believe differently. Many consider the murder to be, in fact, of racist origin. “Thirty years ago, the community was overwhelmingly white...The police force's 53-person roster includes just three African Americans.” This indicates that the population of Ferguson has drastically changed. It is no longer a majority of whites, but rather, a majority of blacks. Still, the blacks are neglected. “Black residents say they are frequently harassed…” The whites of Ferguson don’t see the significance of the blacks; therefore, events like this one happen. In a study on racial bias, published by CNN, the author states something called “racism without racists”. Many studies have proven this; people are born with a bias towards race. Even at young ages, children lean toward other children of the same race. “Human beings are consistently, routinely and profoundly biased”. We might not mean to be bias, but, we all are. In an experiment conducted by MIT and the University of Chicago, professors sent in mock resumes to a couple of help-wanted ads. “Applicants with Anglo-sounding names were 50% more likely to get calls for interviews than their black-sounding counterparts.” Racial bias is equal to racism; it’s discrimination to a specific race. It is because of racial bias that black men have harder times getting jobs and are more likely to fall into poverty. In the article Is Everyone a Little Bit Racist?, the writer uses research studies and evidence to prove his idea. He found, Blacks and Hispanics treated by the same doctor for a broken leg, received less pain killers than Whites, who were also treated for a broken leg. “These doctors, principals, prosecutors and recruiters probably believe in equality and are unaware that they are discriminating.” The biggest problem related to racism today isn’t the racists,...

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...ESSAY OUTLINE ON RACISM
•Racism is the belief that a particular race is superior to another.
•Racism is a terrible thing in our world today.
•When racism is used, people feel lesser or angry towards the racist.
•Some solutions can mend all of the racist problems throughout the world.
Thesis: Racism, a discrimination of different groups of people, is terrible in our world today, and although it has awful results there are solutions to those problems.
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Topic Sentence: “Racism is the false belief that people are divided into a hierarchy of races, with certain groups inherently superior to others by virtue of genetic inheritance.”
•Prejudice or animosity against people who belong to other races
•Racism is the belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others
•The belief that people of different races have different qualities and abilities, and that some races are inherently superior or inferior
•Racial stereotypes and jealousy are sometimes the cause of racism
Concluding Sentence: All in all, racism is the discrimination of individual people all throughout the world.
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Topic Sentence: We believe that racism is wrong and offensive to many people of many different races.
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...﻿TJ Grayson
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27 January 2015
RacismRacism is the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races. It is also defined as prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior. This means that racism can come in both intentional and unintentional forms, although both are a form of discrimination and dehumanization of the inferior (in the sense of appreciation or popularity) race.
As touched on already, racial discrimination can be in both the form of intentional as well as unintentional — both of which are harmful to people and the culture in which they live. Now one may ask: how can someone unintentionally discriminate against another race? There are quite a few ways, actually. A major one is traditional upbringing. The circumstances that people grow up in have an extremely large impact on their lives, how they handle situations, how they think, and how they talk (and not just in the sense of their accents). In the movie “42” (The Jackie Robinson Story), a heckler in the crowd began shouting vulgar obscenities and racial slurs at Jackie because of his skin, regardless of the fact that he was an outstanding ball player. In the movie, the heckler’s son was sitting next to him, and began to...

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14-10019
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...Racism in America: Past, Present and Future
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...stereotypes of "angry black women" have become more noticeable in recent years, and this stereotype is effecting how people see race. Black women in the media are more than often portrayed as dark skin, loud "ghetto acting" women. There have been television shows that have tried to help with different races such as the Jefferson's and The Cosby Show. Those shows were still criticized for their use of stereotyped black characters. Another television show named Ugly Betty, had a main character who was a light skinned women named Wilhelmina. Wilhelmina simply was not seen as a black women because of her social mobility and her light colored skin and eyes. That statement alone from the fans of Ugly Betty, brings up colorblind racism or media stereotype racism. If we want to become a colorblind society then the media needs to do a better job at being colorblind. People of different races and ethnicities help to bring different personalities to the media which can be a very positive thing.
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